National Republican., 1887-05-16

clUes lounge about, some asleep aud some
arrives, their eye keen, their brain cool, their
arm strong, their foot fleet TO ny or pursue,
Many OF these poor creatures were brought
mp In that way. They were born IN thieves
garret Their childish toy was burglar dark
lantern. The first thing they remember was
their mother bandaging the brow OF their
father, struck by the police club. They began
by robbing boys pockets, and now they have
come to dig the underground passage TO the
cellar oi the bank and arc preparing TO blast
the gold vault.
just so long. as there are neglected children
Of the street, lust SO long we will have these
good Christian point and to quote passage of
Scripture, expecting to get Scriptural passage
out mr and wretcbed s %hen YOUR Spi father Snd
your molber. forsake you, who then will tase
you upg,,, aud the boy said, 1.-THE perlice, the
In the third watch of the night gambling
does lis worst work. What though the hours
be slipping away and the wife be waiting in
on more drinks. Put up more stakes That
commercial house that only n little while ago
put out sign of copartnership will this winter
be wrecked on a gamblers table, There will
be many money till that viii spring leak.
A member Of Congress gambled with mem
ber-elect and won one hundred and twenty
ns Is SHT sS The se cid cid way Way Of ssnss sens
fortune Is SO stupid. Come, let us toss up and
see who shall have 1t. And so the work goes
MES in rum grocery up to the millionaire
gambler In the stock market
In the third watch of the night pass down
the streets of these cities and you near the
click of the dice and the sharp, keen stroke OF
the ball on the billiard table. At these places
merchant princes dlsmount, ard legislators,
them. Ali Glasses Of people are robbed by this
crime, the importer OF foreign silks and the
dealer In Chatham street pocket handkerchiefs.
The clerks of the stores take hand aftor the
shutters are nut up, and the officers Of the
court while away their time while the jury IL
out.
in Baden Baden, when that city was the
greatest OF oil gambling places on earth, IL was
| no unusual thing the next morning, in the
woods around about the city, 70 find tho sus.
| pended bodies of suicides. Whatever be tho
| for this crime. The thunders of eternal de-
| strueton roll in tho deep rumble of that
| gambling tenpin alley. and as men come out
| to Join the long procession of sin, all the drums
| of death beat the dead march of thousand
| souls.
Perhaps some OF your friends have been
| smitten Of this sin. Perhaps some ofyou have
Perhaps there may be stranger In the
| house this morning come from some Of the
hotels. Look out for those agents Of In
iquity who tarry. around about the hotels,
city city % yes HAVE You You eve ever Sc seen s0' that hat
| splendid building up town." mo" Then
The villain An, VIII undertake to show you what
after young man, through morbid curiosity
or. through badness OF SOUL. has seen the
''lions" and the ,''elephants,' he will be on
| enchanted ground. Look out for these men
who move around the hotels with sleek hats
always sleek hats-and patronizing air, and
unaccountable interest about your welfare and
see through II. They want your money.
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia. while I
was living in that city, an incident occurred,
q fa afNNtl n It, anu ~
street a young man went into a gambling
saloon. lost all his property then blew his
brains out, and before the blood was washed
shutting cards again. You SEQ there Is more
mercy in the highwayman for the belated
traveller on whose body he heaps the stones;
that 1t kills; there Is more mercy in the hurri-
cane that shivers the steamer on the Long
Island coast than there. is mercy in the heart
of gambler for his victim.
In the third watch of the night. also
| drunkenness does its worst. The drinking will
be respectable at s O'Clock In the evening q
little flushed at 0, talkatiye and garrnlous at
10, at II blesphemous at u the hat falls off, at
| ] the man falls to the floor asking for more
drink. Strewn through the drinking saloons
of the city fathers, brothers, husbands. sons as
| good as you are by nature, perhaps better.
In the high circles of society 1t is hushed up.
A merchant prince, 4 he get, noisy and un'
cSnirolla6le, is taken A by his fsliow-rey, s.
him home, where &c falls nat iU the entry.
Do not wake up the children. They have had
disgrace enough. Do not let them know iit.
Hush 1t up. But sometimes 10 cannot be
hushed up; when the rum touches the brain
and the man becomes thoroughly frenzed.
Such one came home, having been absent for
| some time, and during his absence his wife had
died, and she lay in the next room prepared
| for the obsequies and he went In and dragged
her by the locks, and shook her out, Of her
| shroud, and pitched her oht Of the window. -
oh when rum touches the brain you can.
not hush itnp. My friends you see all around
about You the need that something. radical be
done. You do not see the worst In the mid
night meeting at London great multitude
have been saved. We want few hundred
Christian men and women to come down from
the highest circles Of society to toll amid these
wandering and destitute ones, and kiudle up
light in the dark alley, even the gladness of
Do not go wrapped in your fine fnrs and from
your well filed tables with the idea that pious
talk is going TO stop the gnawing of an empty
stomach or to warm stocklngless feet. Take
take prayer. There is great deal of common
sense IN what the poor woman said to the oil ty
missionary when he was telling her how she
ought TO love God and serve Him. "ohl" she
said, "if you were as poor and cold as am,
else"
great deal of what is called Christian work
practical; as after the battle OF Antletam a
man got out of an ambulance with a bag OF
tracts and he went distributing the tracts, and
in this conntry~said 10 him, hI what are you
distributing tracts for now? There are three
thousand men bleeding TO death. Bind ug
We want more commonsense in Christ ian
work, taking the bread of this life In one hand
and the bread of the next life in the other
the Christian man. Who during the last war
went into a hospital with tracts, and coming
to the bed of a man whose legs have been
dancing. rejoice before God that never are
sympathetic words uttered, never a pray OF
offered; never Christian almsgiving indulged
There Is place In Switzerland, have been
told, where the utterance Of one word will
bring back score of echoes, and have to tel
kind word, a generous word, helpful word
uttered In the dark places OF the town will
bring back ten thousand echoes from all the
Are there in this assemblage this morning
those who know by experience the tragedies
In the third watch Of the night? / am no
Take the bandage from your bruised soul, anc
put on II the soothing salve Of Chrsts Gospe
and Of Gods compassion. Many have come
tired of the sinful life. Cry up the news e
heaven. Set all the bells ringing. Spread
the banquet under the arches. Let the crowned
% You there % IS more delight I IN IN he heaven over on on
man who gets reformed by the grace Of Goo
than over ninety and nine that never got OF
, the track.
/ could give you the history In a minute o
one of the best friends / ever had. Outside o
my own family never had a better friend
He welcomed me to my home at the west. HI
. was OF splendid personal appearance, but HI
! had an nrdor of soul and a warmth of afIectiel
, that made me love him like brother. ! saw
| men coming out OF the saloons and gambling
| hells, and they surrounded my friend, ant
! they took him at the weak point, his socia
nature, and saw him going down, aud hat
a fair talk with him, for never yet saw maj
/ | you could not talk with on the subject OF hi
habits If you talked with him in the righ
way. said TO him: why don't you give VI
/ your bad habits and become q Chrstiau2"
remember now just how he looked. leantnI
: over his counter as he replied ~ wish could
, oh, cir, / should Ike to be q Christian, but
!, have gone SO far astray can't get back"
| Go the time went on After awhile the dal